Black Holy One

Leading creator-Hactcin classed 'deity'. Jicarilla color-named (Black) supernatural; paired with White Hactcin (of the sky/upper world). Term Hậctcin Diłhił reflects diłhił 'black' in Jicarilla; orthography per Opler.

Domains

• creation

Powers

• make the first animals from clay
• shape the first man

Epithets

• Hậctcin Diłhił

Relations

• companion: Holy Ones

Sources

• Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians,' Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society vol. 31 (1938).